Kerry Gilmore's Biography

Kerry Gilmore, Group Leader, Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces

Kerry Gilmore was born in Brewster, Massachusetts, USA in 1984. After receiving bachelor degrees in biology and chemistry from Roger Williams University, he moved on to his Ph.D. in organic chemistry at Florida State University from Prof. Igor V. Alabugin examining the Baldwin rules and the cyclizations of alkynes, during which time he also spent a year in Bologna, Italy as a Fulbright Scholar with Prof. Chryssostomos Chatgilialoglu. He then moved to the Max-Planck Institute in Berlin for postdoctoral work under Prof. Peter H. Seeberger, where he was promoted to Group Leader in 2014. His current research interests include the development of continuous and modular reaction modules, creating chemical assembly systems for the synthesis of customizable small molecules as well as for the inexpensive production of active pharmaceutical ingredients (medicines) such as antimalarials and generic drugs.